"WalterM140" wrote in message
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"There are two medals awarded to members of the Texas National Guard
basically
for showing up:

Walter,

While I am not a Bush voter it is important to clarify this. The Texas
National Guard and the Texas State Guard are two separate groups:

http://www.agd.state.tx.us/stateguar...p?ldpage=about

Those awards are only Texas awards and not National. The State Guard is not
Federal and does not get called out of Texas.

Roust the corporate welfare baron all you want but do it on real grounds
unlike the opposition.

Tom C